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As the Johnny Manziel mini-series descends into the absurd — ESPN has deputized MIT's best and brightest to calculate the latest autograph tally — two names spring to mind: Ralph Sampson and Michael Vick. By today's standards, they had it easy. They weren't tempted by Twitter, recorded by cell phones or berated by bloggers. But in their time, the early 1980s for Sampson, nearly two decades later for Vick, they were college sports royalty. Sampson was a three-time national player of the year at Virginia, a 7-foot-4 basketball prodigy who defied position labeling and, often, description. Vick was a freshman phenom at Virginia Tech, a quarterback with...

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